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Primary gold deposits in Portugal- "mesothermal" or epithermal?

CARLOS M. c. INVERNO*

Key-words: Epithennal; "mesothermal"; intrusion-related; gold; deposits; Portugal.

Abstract: The concepts of epithermal, "mesothennal" and intrusion-related gold deposits are briefly reviewed. Their possible application toprimary gold deposits and occurrences in the Ossa Morena, Central Iberian and Galiza- Tras-os-Montes zones in Portugal is discussed.

Palavras-chave: Epitennal; "mesotermal"; associado a intrusao; ouro; jazigos; Portugal.

Resumo: Os conceitos de jazigos de ouro epitennais, "mesotennais" e associados a intrusOes sao brevemente revistos. A sua possfvelaplica~ao a jazidas e ocorrencias de ouro primarias em Portugal nas zonas de Ossa Morena, Centro-lberica e de Galiza- Tras-os-Montes e analisada.

INTRODUCTION or turbidite-hosted gold deposits. For the same reasons,

the new term of orogenic lode gold deposits, either Archean

Epithermal Au( -Ag) deposits, as originally defined by or Phanerozoic, was even proposed for "mesothermal"

LINDGREN (1933), are epigenetic deposits, mainly hosted gold deposits (RAGEMANN & CASSIDY, 2000; BIERLEIN

by volcanic rocks, generated at shallow depths, from the & CROWE, 2000), with the Archean ones being subdivided

topographic swface to as deep as 1-2 kIll (rather low pressure), into epizonal, mesozonal and hypozonal deposits (GEBRE-

at temperatures of 200-300° C, with distinctive textural and -MARIAM et at., 1995).

mineralogical features. A category of sedimentary-hosted In terms of Ag/ Au ratios, "mesothermal" gold deposits

Au deposits connected to igneous activity was later contrast epithermal gold deposits, due to an average

recognized within these deposits and the development of Ag/Au ratio of 0.17 (range 0.1-1) in the fomler and 0.33- » 10

fluid inclusion techniques enabled to determine a ratios in the latter (e. g., RUTCHINSON, 1987).

formation temperature range for epithermal Au deposits One ofLindgren's followers, GRATON, introduced in 1933

of < 150-300° C from low-salinity « 1-5 wt % NaCI the term leptothermal deposits to cover those intermediate

equiv.) fluids (BERGER & SIMON, 1983). between meso- and epithermal deposits. The term was

LINDGREN (1911, 1933) defined mesothermal deposits modified to transitional deposits (PANTELEYEV, 1991) to

as those formed at 1-4.5 km from the topographic surface designate gold deposits formed between the setting of

(moderate pressure) at temperatures of 200-300° C, with. porphyry-molybdenum systems and that of epithermal

extremely variable ore morphology and a distinct environments, and was in part expressed by the subvolcanic

carbonatization, among other types of alteration. Lat~r it intrusion-related Au( -Ag-Cu) pyrrhotite veins (ALLDRICK

was recognized that, though more abundant in greenschist & Roy, 1997) in British Columbia, Canada.

facies environments, they can actually occur in prehnite- Somehow following this intermediate terminology

pumpellyite (subgreenschist) through granulite facies, route, it should be stressed, on the other hand, the

i. e., were deposited at 150-700° C (most deposits at 200- common association of some gold deposits with granitoid

450° C) under pressures of 0.5 through 6 kb, at a depth intrusions that has been known for a long time, distinct

up to 12 km (KERRICH et at., 1995; GEBRE-MARIAM et at., from intrusion-associated porphyry( -Cu)-Au deposits.

1995), from dominant low-saline (up to 5 wt % NaCI ROUTHIER (1963), following former authors, considered a

equiv.), high-CO2, near-neutral-pR fluids (PIRAJNO, 1990). peribatholithic zoning, with successive metallic zones,

Therefore, this group of deposits is better referred to as tin, tungsten, gold and other zones, increasingly away

"mesothermal" -with quotation marks due to the actual from a granitoid cupola (Fig. 1), but recognized that part

temperature range -gold deposits, either greenstone-hosted of them could be in the granitoid endocontact. Recently,

-*Instituto Geol6gico e Mineiro, Estrada da Portela-Zambujal, Apartado 7586, 2720 Alfragide (Lisboa), Portugal; e-mail: carlos.inverno@igm.pt

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Fig. 1- Reproduction of historical figure ofRoUTHIER (1963), based on FERSMAN (1934), VARLAMOFF(1947) and EMMONS (1940), showing the peribatholithicmetallic zoning. Also shown the pegmatites zoning within the intrusion, the granitoid levels of erosion, and the AOB sector that separates apicalfrom lateral geochemical concentrations.

such gold deposits, typically associated with Wand/or Sn related to reduced plutons of the ilmenite-series or spanning

provinces, have been called intrusion-related, plutonic- the boundary between ilmenite- and magnetite-series.

related or, simply, intrinsic gold deposits (McCoy et al., These deposits generally form at 0.5 -> 1.5 kb and 200-

1997; THOMPSON et al., 1999; SMITH et al., 1999; LANG 400° C, though homogenization temperatures down to

et al.. 2000; LANG & BAKER, 2001; MUSTARD, 2001; 140° C and over 500° C have also been recorded. Deposi-

BAKER & LANG, 2001). tional fluids are CO2-rich and low-saline (0-12 wt % NaCI

According to these last authors, in these gold deposits equiv.) in most deposits, though high-saline fluids (30-65

a combination of W, Bi and As is common, though Sn, wt% NaCI equiv.) occur in some of them, with an overall

Mo, Te and Sb are a\so usually present and Ag may be interpretation of magmatic source for the fluids, despite,abundant or scarce (gold fineness of 825-900). lntrusion- metamorphic or meteoric contributions in the case of

hosted deposits contain Au- Bi- Te- W :t (Mo, As, Pb ), exocontact deposits. McCoy et al. ( 1997) classified these

proximal deposits from the intrusions are enriched in Au- plutonic-related deposits as mesothermal, but their range

As :t (Sn, W, Sb, Cu, Pb, Zn) and distal deposits contain of temperature deposition led the other afore-mentioned

Au-As-Sb-Hg:t (Ag, Pb, Zn). The sulphide content in ore is authors to abandon that term and simply call them

variable, but averages about 3 %, with pyrite and arsenopyrite intrusion-related or plutonic-related gold deposits.

as the dominant sulphides. The most characteristic style

of deposit is of intrusion-hosted sheeted veins, but greisen-

like, disseminations and breccia deposits are also known "Mesothermal" gold deposits and occurrences in

within the intrusions, and contact skarns make the Portugal

transition to the other deposit types, such as peripheral

veins and disseminated replacements in the surrounding Typical "mesothermal" gold occurrences and deposits, as

metasedimentary rocks. Alteration in intrusion-hosted and defined above, are known in Portugal in the tectonostratigraphic

proximal gold deposits is more commonly fracture- Ossa Morena Zone, the most relevant in the regions of

controlled and includes feldspathic (albite and/or K-feldspar Portalegre and Montemor-o-Novo (Fig. 2). The two

rich), sericitic, silicic, greisenous, calc-silicate and/or argillic subareas of S. Martinho, Alter do Chao and Algueireiras-

assemblages, whereas pervasive alteration assemblages of -Nave de Grou-Mosteiros, Arronches (Fig. 2) are known

muscovite, chlorite and/or carbonate rarely occur. in the former and zones from SE to SW of Montemor-o-

Following the same afore-mentioned authors, these -Novo, between this town and Santiago do Escoural area,

gold deposits form at convergent plate boundaries, being are mineralized in the latter.

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S. Martinho and Montemor-o-Novo prospects are in Algueireiras-Nave de Grou-Mosteiros and in the Bra~osamphibolite facies terrains, whereas the metamorphic prospect, Montemor-o-Novo. Mineralization in gold-grade in Algueireiras-Nave de Grou-Mosteiros is not enriched zones takes the fonn of disseminations, quartzabove greenschist facies. Primary gold mineralization veins, veinlets and stockworks and can also be stratabound.occurs in the transition metasedimentary/metavolcariic It consists mainly of pyrite and pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite

being either abundant or absent, and other minor mineralsare loellingite, chalcopyrite, realgar, barite and tounnaline.Gold fineness is of 820-920 in S. Martinho,gold grains are

CA up to 20 I.Im in diameter in all areas and gold grade is in theLEGEI1):"',[5 ~00(J;Alji8RA 1-6(7) g/tAu range (INVERNO et at., 1995; INVERNO, 1997).~~~~~MI~ These characteristics clearly fit those of eugeosyncline-~~ type ("mesothennal") gold mineralization (INVERNO et at.,~~~ 1995) as known worldwide (HUTCHINSON, 1987; GROVES,~~=~~[.: 1993). Fluid inclusion data on the S. Martinho prospect,10- ~~~T8ROS Portalegre reported by OLIVEIRA (200 1) and OLIVEIRA et at.

(2001a, 2001b) respect to initial low-Au grademineralization and consist of metamorphogenic, eitherlow-saline (avg. 10 wt % NaCl equiv.) aqueous-carbonic(H20-CO2-CH4) fluids that homogenize at 245-521° C, orelse lower-temperature, H20-NaCI-Ca(Mg)Ch fluidswith salinities of 1-18 wt % NaCl equiv., overall consistentwith "mesotherrna1" gold mineralization. However, accordingto the same authors, gold was mainly introduced with a

liS late stage fluid, of hypersaline nature (magmatic), forwhich homogenization temperatures of 270 -> 550° Cand salinities of 32-62 wt % NaCl equiv. are indicated.

Portuguese primary gold deposits and occurrencesHERCYIIANMASSIF in Central Iberian and Galiza-Tras-os-Montes zones

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Several pnmary gold deposIts and occurrences are

D :~~~~NS known in both the Central Iberian and the Galiza- Tras-

FARO -os-Montes zones in Portugal. Most of them are hosted in

the endo- or exocontact of Hercynian granitoids that

intrude either pre-Ordovician Beira slates/schists orFig. 2- Portuguese gold deposits and occurrences mentioned in text. .. I S.l .

kslml ar I unan roc s.All these deposits are located in districts or areas with

rocks of Late Proterozoic age, typically quartz-biotite (at W/Sn deposits. CERVEIRA (1952) was the first to stress atimes graphitic) slate (or schist) and black quartzite (or zoning, relative to the granitoids, ofW deposits and outermetachert) as the metasedimentary component and felsic Au deposits in Portugal. ALMEIDA & NORONHA (1988)metavolcanic rocks or amphibolite (or banded amphibole) mentioned the same peri-granitic zoning with inner Was the metavolcanic component, and in some Montemor- deposits and the outer Freixeda Au deposit in the-o-Novo prospects calc-silicate/skarnoid rocks are also Mirandela area (Fig. 2).present. Small porphyritic intrusions and also a thin (at Characteristic features of these deposits can betimes thick) felsic-intennediate pyroclastic rock are exemplified in a few of them. The main metallic associationcommonly present close to gold mineralization. Shear As-Au-Bi-W occurs typically in the granite-hostedplanes are in places recognized adjacent or close to gold Penedono gold deposits (SOUSA & RAMOS, 1991), northmineralization. Alteration related to mineralization consists ofViseu (Fig. 2) and NORONHA & RAMOS (1993) recognizedof silicification (quartz veining and masses), chloritization, in northern Portugal the association of As-Fe-Bi-Au-Agsericitization and carbonatization, the last sometimes (-W-Mo-Sn-Cu-Pb-Zn) in some gold occurrences versuspervasive, as it is the case through ferroan dolomite in As-Fe-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au-Ag( -Sb-Cd) in other distinct gold

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occurrences. The most abundant ore sulphides are arse- (1990) to conclude that gold in the region was intrinsicallynopyrite and pyrite in all gold deposits and occurrences. related to the granite, also indicated by sulphur isotope andSulphide content in quartz (vein) is of 2.8 % in Esc:idia transparent and opaque mineral chemistry evidence (ROSA,Grande, G6is (Fig. 2; CERVEIRA, 1947). Sheeted veins are the 2001). Even in a case such as the slate-hosted Esc:idiastyle of mineralization in the granite-hosted Rigome gold Grande deposit, a hidden granitoid may be inferred, sinceprospect, north of Castro Daire (Fig. 2; CAESSA et at., 1998), the deposit is located midway between a small granitewhereas gold mineralization occurs either in discrete quartz intrusion (south of trigonometric beacon Lousa), some 5 kInveins or shear zone veinlets in most deposits and occurrences. to the SW, and the Senhora da Guia zone, to the NE, where

Fluid inclusion evidence from these deposits shows that the pushing aside of the slaty cleavage around a rigid bodymetamorphogenic aqueous carbonic (lliO-C02 :t CH4:t N2) at depth is probably due to a hidden granitic cupola.fluids, with salinities of 1-10 wt % NaCl equiv. and either With respect to classification of these gold depositshigh or low % mol. CO2, and coeval with arsenopyrite, and occurrences, the prior difficulty in classifying thempyrite and a trace of gold, were the first to deposit at a led several authors (e. g., MURPHY & ROBERTS, 1997;temperature of 300-400° C and a pressure of 1-2 (to 4) kb. ROIRON et at., 1996) to consider each individual depositThey were followed by aqueous (H2O-NaCl) fluids with as having a "mesothermal" stage followed by an epithermalsalinities of 0-15 (occasionally higher) wt % NaCI equiv. stage, the latter more enriched in gold. However, theand trapping temperatures of 200-300° C, due to mixing current intrusion-related gold deposits classification termof, on one hand, basinal brine and/or possible magmatic enables to surpass that difficulty, since the specificfluids and, on the other hand, meteoric fluids causing conditions of formation of these deposits, including thosecooling and dilution; gold (:t bismuth) deposition at a farther away from the intrusion, occur over a wide rangepressure of 0.5-1.5 kb was contemporaneous with this of temperature and other parameters. In fact, recentlystage. This is in general terms and at least partially the case ROSA (2001) clearly proposed that the Jales depositsfor instance in Penedono (NOGUEIRA & NORONHA, 1993; (Campo, Gralheira and Tres Minas) in Tr:is-os-MontesROIRON et at., 1996), Jales-Campo and Gralheira (MARTINS, were intrusion-related gold deposits as defined modernly1987; SHEPERD & OLIVEIRA, 1990), Jales-Tres Minas (see above). CAESSA et at. (1998) had also tentatively(NORONHA et at., 2000), Freixeda (ALMEIDA & NORONHA, suggested the same for the granite-hosted, sheeted-vein1988), Castromil-Paredes (SHEPERD, 2001) and Esc:idia Rigorne gold prospect.Grande (MURPHY & ROBERTS, 1997), all shown in Fig. 2.

Some authors, such as ROIRON et at. (1996), suggested C I d "t t t.onc u mg s a emen

that there was no genetic lInk between these goldmineralizations a~d the Hercynian granites hosting or close Despite occurring in Spain (e. g., Rodalquilar [Almeria];to them, which would act passively, with gold leached from ARRIBAS et at., 1995), no evidence was found so-far formetasediments during metamorphism. They based mostly the presence of epithermal, either low-sulphidation oron halogen ratios of fluid inclusions and favoured the high-sulphidation, gold deposits in Portugal. Typicalinterference of basinal brines conducting to gold deposition. "mesothermal" gold deposits and occurrences in PortugalHowever, some of the Penedono Au-related fluids in a graph are restrited to the Ossa Morena Zone. The majority oflog(Rr/Cl)-log(I/Cl) plot (Fig. 8 in ROIRON et at., 1996) gold deposits and occurrences in Portugal are located inmidway between typical basinal brine and typical magmatic the Central Iberian and Galiza- Tr:is-os-Montes zones, influids, in spite of Tres Minas equivalent plot (Fig. 5 in districts and areas with W /Sn deposits, and are ofNORONHA et at., 2000) being more characteristic of the intrusion-related (plutonic-related) gold deposit type asformer. Also, NORONHA & RAMOS (1993), MURPHY & currently defined, even when farther away from a granitoid.ROBERTS (1997) and NORONHA et at. (2000) wentfurther, on Unfortunately, no rich gold province such as the Rioadmitting that the intrusion of granites was at least the heat Narcea gold belt (Asturias) -El Valle and other depositssource for these gold mineralizations. -of this last type was found to date in Portugal.

Either as heat engine and/or as one of the contributorsto fluids in the late main gold stage, the role of thegranitoids appears to be significant in this type of gold ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSdeposits genesis, even when located rather distant fromgranitoid contacts. Anomalous high Au contents in I acknowledge John F. H. Thompson from Teckgranite and .aplite and pegmatite veins in Jales, together Corporation, Canada for sending me literature on thewith low Au values in the Reira Slates, led NEIVA & NEIVA Canadian Cordillera gold deposits.

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